Post by Nirmata on Sept 4, 2016 12:54:01 GMT -5
Vashti
Backstory:
Vashti is one of the older Guardians, along with Enduliano. They were created as an experimental human, but scrapped as a concept and elevated to Guardian status. The Great War happened, and while Vashti mainly stayed out of trouble and sight during it, afterward they founded a small town as a haven for experiments like themselves and called it Coveton. They were the mayor of Coveton, watching it grow to include many regular humans as well, until being framed for the murder of several people, including at least one Guardian, and being exiled to Frost.
Strengths/Weaknesses:
+ Excellent vision
+ Dextrous
+ Good communication skills
* Trusts easily
- Not much of a fighter
- Not familiar with the world outside
- Prone to panic attacks
Innate:
- Telescope eyes
Vashti has two sets of eyes. The upper set provides regular vision, while the lower, smaller set is rarely used and has the ability to "zoom in" on faraway things.
- Quadruple armed
Vashti has four arms, the lower set of which is not used as much. When they're using their godmode, however, they tend to point an arm in each direction they're maintaining a connection to (as the maximum is usually four).
Abilities:
- Mental link
Vashti can communicate with other Guardians or Demons, without speaking aloud. Basically, anything that's not just a regular human soul in a regular human body. It can be resisted or broken, unless Vashti focuses on maintaining the connection.
With fusions, Vashti enters their shared mental space, which is separate from their individual thoughts. With single minds, Vashti creates their own shared mental space separate from either participant's regular thoughts.
- Mind static
When Vashti communicates mentally, strong emotions from them can sometimes produce mind static, which interferes with their target's thoughts. This can happen involuntarily, or can be purposely directed when Vashti feels strong emotion. Doing this for an extended period of time will exhaust Vashti.
- Aura map
A side effect of Vashti's mental connection abilities is their ability to navigate an aura map, which shows all Guardian or Demon auras within a certain range. This map can be "scrolled", but not reliably.
Godmode:
Vashti is able to maintain more than one connection at a time in a battle situation, though the kind of focus and energy required to do this leaves them completely open to physical attack and will drain them completely if they do it for too long.
Appearance:
Vashti is tall and thin, with an extra set of arms below the regular set. Vashti's eyes - both sets of them - are gold, their skin is a reddish brown, and their hair is flame red and very long. Vashti tends to wear dark, loose, long robes that obscure faces, extra arms, or any other distinguishing or unusual features.
Personality:
Vashti tends to avoid being seen. Vashti's powers are strong, yet at the same time they're of little use in battle, which combined make very good reasons for most people not to know about Vashti. However, Vashti is actually a huge nerd, and has spent countless years reading and rereading books and later watching TV shows (especially Star Trek), and even creating new stories set in those universes.